Most recent patient ...

Yesterday and today, Frank treated the wife of one of our Masai askaris (night watchmen). For those of you who have been to RVCV, this is the wife of one of Godwin's many brothers - he looks just like him only WAY shorter.

Anyway, she had gone to a local dispensary near the boma (Masai village) and as soon as the "doctor" found out who her husband worked for, he admitted her and charged 30,000 tsh - about $25.00 USD - an ENORMOUS amount for any Tanzania.

SO, yesterday I drove down to Mto Wambu to pick her up and bring her here to see Frank.

It happens with medical treatment, transportation, rent, everything - when one Tanzanian knows that another Tanzanian works for a mzungu (a white person) the price sky-rockets.


She let me take her picture this morning before she left. Here, she is giggling at her husband who is instructing her on how to smile correctly for the picture.

She doesn't speak any swahili - only the tribal Masai language - meaning she has never been to school. They said she is 19, my guess is closer to 12 or 13. And the kicker ... there is a second wife, and she is even YOUNGER!

Ah the joys of "cultural traditions"

More to come ...